Button loop



BUTTON LOOP Filed May 1, 1929 INVENTEJR JQHN I-| DCH IKEE ATTy 20 turns to normal condition.

Patented June 110, 1930 UNETED STATES JOHN H. DOMKEE, OF WEST HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGI'IOR TO THE WIRE NOVELTY MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF \VEST HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION 015 oonnncmrcur BUTTON LOOP Application filed. May 1, 1929. Serial lie/353,545h

The invention relates to improvements in button loops particularly adapted for use on garment, straps, the loop being specially p adapted to be suspended at the end of a strap loop in readiness to be clipped over a button the shank of which may be urged from a button receiving loop into a smaller retaining loop from which it cannot be unintentionally withdrawn, and the objects of the invention are to provide associated wire loops having a suspension loop adapted to contract when the associated loops are made to expand; to provide wire button loops of which the free ends of the wire from one side of theasso= ciated loops form a portion of the suspension loop upon an opposite side; and to provlde means by which both wire ends may be coupled to permit a relative movement there of as the suspension loop contracts and relVith these and other objects in view as may become apparent from the within disclosures, the invention consists not only of the particular forms herein pointed out and illustrated in the drawingbut readily admits of certain other modifications within the scope of what hereinafter may be claimed.

The following is the description of an embodiment of the invention, reference being had to the accompanying drawing in which the Figure 1 is a face view of the button loop, a button shank illustrated in cross-section and being within the button receiving loop; the Figure 2 is a similar view but illustrating the button shank lodged within the yielding throat connecting the receiving and retaining loops; and the Figure 3 is a face view of a modification.

Referring more particularly to the drawl mg in which slmilar numbers refer to similar 5O sides of the associated loops 1 and in crossed relation that each may contribute to theformation of an opposite side portion of the suspension loop 6 and that, upon any lateral expansion of the associated loops 1 and 2, the suspension loop6 will laterally contract. The aligned extremities 7 and ,8 are nor? mally spaced apart and a ferrule 9 mounted thereover to hold and protect them and to serve as a roller bearingwithin a strap loop from which the button loop is intended to be suspended. i i 1 As the button loop is clipped over a button, the button shank 1O rests within the lower portion of the receiving loop 2 and the wire extremities 7 and em in their normal spaced relation within the ferrule 9, as illustrated by the Figure 1 wherein a portion of the ferrule is broken away to expose the extremities. Theshank 10, thus in readiness to be urged passed the cont ractml threat 3, may be thrust intothe retaining loop 1, but in passingthe threat 3, as illustrated by the Figure 2, the threat 3, and hence the associated loops 1 and 2 are thereby expanded laterally. Simultaneously with the throat expansion the suspension loop 6 is contracted by reason of the wire forming one side of the associated loops 1 and 2 extending and crossing to form an opposite side portion ofthe suspension loop 6, thewire extremities 7 and 8 being thereby brought into closer relation within the ferrule 9, as illustrated by the Figure 2 wherein a portion of the ferrule is broken away to expose the extremities as in the previous figure. As soon as the shank 1O passestheythroat 3 the wireportions, by reason of the resiliency of the metal, are immediately restored to their normal relative conditions and, once within the retaining loop 1, the button shank 10 is there held against accidental release, an intentional release necessitating again the expansion of the threat 3 and consequent contraction of the suspension loop 6 together with a slight lateral crowding of a strap looped therein. The ad vantage of having the suspension loop laterally contract within its normal width upon the expansion of the throat portion of the associated loops is most obvious; for in previous button loops of this type both the suspension loop and the throat portion expanded at the same time from their respective normal positions With the distinct disadvantage of tending to disassemble the device and of increasing its normal Width.

In the modified form of the device, as illustrated by the Figure 3, the ferrule is 'dispensed With and the extremities 7 and 8 are lengthened to overlap one another and each provided with an endloop 11 encom passing the other extremity. As the associated loops are made to expand and the suspension loop contracts, each end loop 11 is adapted to slide over the other extremity to permit the functioning of the Wire device.

What I claim is:

1. ;A button loo-p comprising a single piece of Wire of which a middle portion is bent to form an end and side portions of associated loops intercommunicable by means of an expansible normally contracted throat portion, the remaining portions of the Wire being crossed and then extended to each form a half section of a contractible suspension loop. the section of either side of the suspension loop being carried by an opposite side portion of the associated loops; I

2. A button loop comprising a single piece of Wire of Which a middle portion is bent to form an end and side portions of asso ciated loops intercommunicable by means of an expansible normally contracted throat portion, the remaining portions of the wire being crossed and then extended to each form a half section of a contractible suspension loop, and coupling means relatively securing the Wire extremities for a limited independent movement.

3. A button loop of resilient Wire of which a middle portion is bent to form an end and side portions of associated loops intercommunicable by means of an expansible normally contracted throat portion, the remaining portions of the Wire being crossed to close the loops and then extended in cross relation to each form a half section of a suspension loop, each section being integral With an op-- posite side portion of the associated loops and the free ends of the Wire being relatively movable to permit the suspension loop to contract as the associated loops expand.

JOHN HQDOMKEE. 

